Just Being A Human

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Elizabeth Warren on Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation

“I hear all this, you know, “Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.” No! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that maurauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea—God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

I am fighting an urge to move to Boston solely so I can vote for her.

(Via LiveSmartVideos)

Her lecture on the Collapse of the Middle Class was brilliant, and predicted a huge part of the economic crisis we’ve been set up to endure. She seems like she would be a huge part of the change that this country needs. I really hope she gets the Senate seat.